About one in ten people that walk into an American hospital will have something wronged

happened to them because of the medical care delivered.

That's crazy.

We would never walk onto an airplane if one in ten times something wrong was going to

happen, but we walk into hospitals all the time.

Dr. David Levine knows a lot about hospitals.

We have the most advanced hospital care in the world.

We have an enormous number of hospital beds.

We have incredible technology and incredible people in those hospitals.

Unfortunately, we haven't built the right systems and we have created a place that is often

unsafe and causes harm to folks.

David is a primary care physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

And he's right, hospitals aren't always the safest place to be.

For starters, there's the risk of infection.

According to a 2018 study at any given time, one out of every 31 patients in a US hospital

had an infection that they picked up during their stay.

And that was before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hospitals do a lot of good for people, but they're also a place where medical errors occur.

In the US, these errors cause around 100,000 deaths per year.

A study published just last week by today's guest, David Levine and others found that

a quarter of hospitalizations in the state of Massachusetts involve an adverse event.

And that a quarter of those adverse events are preventable.

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